Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
’s Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...-run police force said Thursday that it killed 12 members of the Israeli-backed Abu Shabaab militia in Gaza, which said its fighters had killed five Hamas operatives but made no mention of its own casualties.
It was not immediately possible to verify the competing claims or confirm the identities of those killed.
According to Hamas, the Abu Shabaab button men were killed early Wednesday by the Gaza police’s Sahm unit, which Hamas says was established to combat looting. The unit released video footage showing several dead men lying in the street, saying they were Abu Shabaab fighters who were tossed into the calaboose and killed for collaborating with Israel. It was not possible to verify the images or the claims around them.
Abu Shabaab has been operating in an Israeli-controlled area of southern Gaza’s Rafah. Israel confirmed last week that it was arming the militia to bolster opposition to Hamas.
Abu Shabaab has said it secures aid deliveries but been accused of looting aid trucks. Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
Israel on Thursday released what it said were Hamas documents showing the terror group maintained a policy of confiscating 15%-25% of aid entering Gaza since the war there was sparked by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.
The killings came shortly after the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) accused Hamas of attacking a bus carrying its Paleostinian aid workers, killing at least eight, and preventing the maimed from being treated at a hospital in the Strip. GHF interim CEO John Acree said some employees "may have been taken hostage."
Dozens of Paleostinians have been killed while trying to reach GHF distribution points since they began operating in late May, according to Hamas’s civil defence agency. The IDF has confirmed firing warning shots in at least eight instances, but disputed the Hamas corpse counts.
The civil defense agency said another 21 people were killed while waiting for aid on Thursday, adding that they were among 29 people across the territory who were killed by Israeli fire.
When contacted by AFP about reports of a deadly incident near an aid distribution point close to the Netzarim corridor in central Gaza, the Israeli military said it had "conducted warning shots... hundreds of meters (yards) from the aid distribution site, prior to its opening hours."
GHF SAYS EMPLOYEES MAIMED BY HAMAS HAVE YET TO BE TREATED
In an update after accusing Hamas of firing on its Paleostinian employees, GHF said Thursday that the terror group had blocked the Red Thingy from transporting victims to the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.
A crowd soon gathered at the scene, forcing the Hamas gunnies to retreat, the update said.
GHF said Hamas members threatened hospital staff from treating the employees, adding that "all maimed and dead local workers were piled in the Nasser Hospital parking lot," where, as of 2:00 p.m. Thursday, they have remained without treatment.
"The GHF is committed to helping the maimed and the families of the dear departed and injured," read the update. "We are working through many channels to transfer the injured from the hospital in Khan Younis to facilities with more robust capabilities."
The statement called on "parties holding the remains of the dear departed to immediately release them to their families," and vowed to keep "delivering food aid to the people of Gaza after this tragedy."
GHF’s leadership slammed Hamas as "cowardly murderers" and "absolute evil," and accused the UN and Western nations of failing to condemn the killings. Hamas’s government media office, in comments to AFP, accused the agency of having "become a filthy tool in the hands" of Israel, "used to lure civilians into deadly traps."
Despite the attacks, GHF delivered the most meals it has in a single day on Thursday, according to its own figures. The aid group also said overnight that it distributed boxes of food at its distribution site in central Gaza, even though the IDF has repeatedly warned Paleostinians not to approach aid sites before 6 a.m.
A GHF spokesperson did not explain why the organization appeared to be distributing aid overnight, when the IDF has cautioned Paleostinians against walking to the sites.
On Thursday, GHF said, it opened three sites, two in southern Gaza’s Tel Sultan and one at Wadi Gaza in the central Strip. The agency said it distributed over 45,000 boxes of food aid, with more than half of those distributed at its original aid site in Rafah, near the shore along the Gaza-Egypt border. According to the agency, each box contains meals for 5.5 people for 3.5 days.
However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
GHF does not provide Gazooks with ready-to-eat meals, as aid groups recommend in such humanitarian crises. Instead, the boxes are filled largely with dry food products whose preparation requires cooking equipment, which is rare in the devastated Strip.
AID ENTERS NORTH GAZA FOR FIRST TIME SINCE MARCH
Separately, for the first time in months, Israeli authorities allowed humanitarian aid
trucks to directly enter the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.The 56 trucks from the World Food Program were transferred to northern Gaza via the Zikim Crossing, also known as the Erez West Crossing, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories announced.
COGAT said the move comes following "the approval of the political echelon and on the recommendation of the security authorities."
Israel halted the flow of aid to Gaza on March 2, hours after the collapse of a ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas. Deliveries were renewed on May 19, but only via the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Strip’s south.
Israel has accused Hamas throughout the war of hoarding aid to finance operations and pay operatives.
Red Cross denies role in evacuating GHF workers targeted in alleged Hamas attack
[IsraelTimes] After the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation claimed that its dead and wounded workers — allegedly attacked by Hamas last night— were evacuated by the International Committee of the Red Cross to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, an ICRC spokesperson tells The Times of Israel that the organization was not involved in the evacuation.
While the ICRC operates a field hospital in Rafah, just south of Khan Younis, its medical teams do not operate inside Nasser Hospital.
A GHF spokesperson doesn’t immediately respond to a request for clarification based on the ICRC’s statement.
US security contractor writes anonymous op-ed decrying Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
[IsraelTimes] An American security contractor working with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says the new aid initiative is plagued with problems and is not properly serving Palestinians.
The man — whose op-ed is anonymously published by the far-left Zeteo news site — says he is one of the hundreds of people hired by UG Solutions, one of the two American contractors working with GHF.
He says contractors were given very little information and training before being sent into Gaza.
“If you’re here to get your gun on, then pack your shit and go home, because that’s not what we’re here for. We’re here to help,” he recalls being told during a briefing in Washington before they departed for Israel.
The contractors were given various lethal and non-lethal weapons but no one was tested to ensure proper training and no instructions were given for when to use them before they were sent into Gaza, he says. The anonymous contractor also says they didn’t receive cultural awareness training, even though some had never been deployed to the Mideast before.
While the American contractors were told they’d be working 12-hour shifts for four days before taking two days off, they’ve ended up working 20-hour shifts with no days off and are all sleep-deprived, he says.
The contractor recalls the chaos of the first full day of aid distribution on May 27, when GHF’s site was completely overrun.
“It was not organized, and people were getting smushed and trampled. Eventually, there were so many people in the lanes that the gates burst,” he writes. “They were only trying to get aid — aid, by the way, that consisted of flour, rice, lentils, tea bags, and noodles; things that need water. They don’t have any water. And we’re not giving out water.”
Despite assertions to the contrary by the IDF and GHF, the contractor says the Israeli army is very involved in the operation. The IDF has offices inside the GHF compounds and shares radio communications with GHF, he says.
“I went into this pretty open-minded. I don’t have a side. I despise human suffering, and I hate that it exists. I was just hoping to be helpful. But I don’t think we are. What we — these American companies and contract personnel — are doing is directly leading to more pain, suffering, and death for the Palestinians in Gaza,” he writes.